Remix and remixability

-"Remix and Remixability" by Lev Manovich

Through reading the article which is talking about remix and remixability, I have understood the idea of these two words used in digital media design much deeper than before. Nowadays, we are not limited to use computer as a search and communication tool, but also expanded to massive numbers of fields such as blog entry, photo sharing, video production, music composition and uploding them onto web for sharing. It is all about exploring and taking advantage of the computer tools to make something we like. People are able to remix the materials given into a new thing by using design software easily.

Just looking at the old sources for information has been a past tense, the present tense is that most things in digital such as photos, music CDs, videos and so on can be broke into separate blocks that can be accessed individually.

All of those amazing things told in this article present internet culture which keeps continuously increasing. In short, Remixing promotes the interaction between computer and human in one aspect.

Personally, I quite like the appropriate examples showed in the article relate to the information and receiver such as at the beginning the writer compares information with water, and then compares the information as train and the receiver as train station. Both of the examples are compared vividly and easily for readers to understand the relation ship between information and us.